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Never dine with another man’s wife,
    or revel with her at wine;
or your heart may turn aside to her,
    and in blood[a] you may be plunged into destruction.

Choice of Friends

10 Do not abandon old friends,
    for new ones cannot equal them.
A new friend is like new wine;
    when it has aged, you can drink it with pleasure.

11 Do not envy the success of sinners,
    for you do not know what their end will be like.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 9:9 Heb: Gk by your spirit

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